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more of what the suspect is telling investigators. the 19-year-old claims no foreign terrorist group were involved in the attack, he and his brother were self-radicalized jihadists and the most vation was to defend is lal. reporters gathering new details now. there's a lot to tell you. joe johns, crime in justice correspondent. joe, let's talk about dzhokhar tsarnaev, what he is saying that his brother was the driving force behind the bombings. obviously, investigators have more questions about his claims. lawmakers lawmakers in washington and a lot of questions as well. >> reporter: certainly true, anderson. talking to law enforcement officials this morning, there's two steps. first the question, of course, is, what exactly the suspect is telling law enforcement authorities? the second and related question is, how much of what the suspect is telling law enforcement authorities do they in fact believe, what's verifiable, what they can check out, or what he

may be saying because, quite frankly, his brother, the alleged co-conspirator in all of this, is not available because he was killed, you know, on friday. so, there's a lot for the law enforcement officials to do. and we just have to differentiate between what they believe the suspect is telling them and what they believe they can verify and what might be the truth, anderson. >> also lawmakers want to talk to the fbi about their treatment of the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, about their interviews with him before he went to russia and any follow-up that they did or did not do, correct? >> yeah. and there's a whole list of questions there, of course, policymakers are asking and we're trying to get to the bottom of what really happened during before and after the time when tamerlan tsarnaev went to russia. federal law enforcement official, for example, this morning, telling cnn tamerlan was not on a terror watch list

or any no fly list. that was something up for debate for a while. the official said that when the fbi looked at tamerlan, there was no derogatory information found and the u.s. never deemed him a threat. the official said when the russian government asked the fbi to look into him, a task force did it from march to june 2011. the official said tsarnaev was on the text database, a testimony run by the customs and border prodekz serviard protect. it there was a misspelling of tamerlan's name which would have led to his name being missed. this was a matter addressed by the homeland security secretary before congress talking about a proposal to improve the system. listen. >> is it true that his identity document did not match his airline ticket and why did the tsa miss the discrepancy? >> there was a mismatch. by the way, the bill will help with this because it requires

that passports be electronically readable as opposed to manually input. it does a good job of human error to the extent it exists out of the process. with the misspelling under our current system there are redundancies and so the system did ping when he was leaving the united states. >> by the way, the official said even when there's a hit in this system for noteworthy travel it doesn't prompt anyone in law enforcement to take action. anderson? >> joe, appreciate that. we got a statement from the law firm representing the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev who died in the shoot outfriday. chris lawrence joins us by phone from providence, rhode island this afternoon. what are the lawyers saying now? >> reporter: anderson, we're outside the lawyer's off at providence. basically, this all happened within the last hour. he came out and he said that

catherine russell asked him to read a statement on her behalf. it basically talks about how she met tamerlan, that they had been married and living together, and it also talks about how their family, she, her daughter, her parents, are all trying to come to terms with what's happened over the past week. >> our firm is representing katie russell, as you all know. we've been asked, she's asked us to make a short statement to you. as you know, from news reports, katie married her husband in june of 2010. since then, she's been living in cambridge, raising her child, working long hours, caring for people in their homes who are unable to care for themselves. katie dpru up here in rhode island and has always remained close to her parents and sisters, as well as to her

extended family. she is fortunate enough to have the support of her loving family, and as they, too, struggle to come to terms with these events and the deep sorrow we all feel following the events of last week. meanwhile, she is doing everything she can to assist in the ongoing investigation. >> the injuries and loss of life to people who came to celebrate a race and a holiday has caused profound distress and sorrow to katie and her family. the reports of ininvolvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all. as a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife, katie deeply mourns the pain and loss to innocent victims, students, law

enforcement officers, families, and our community. in the aftermath of this tragedy, she, her daughter, and her family, are trying to come to terms with this event. thank you. >> reporter: investigators know that indicate katie russell sha apartment with tamerlan, a cramped apartment in massachusetts. as investigators are try to determine when and where he may have assembled those bombs they want to talk to her about what she may have known. now we note from sources close to the family that she does not speak russian, so she didn't always understand what was being said around the house. we also know that the last time she saw him was on thursday, before she went to work, apparently she left for work and thought that he would be home looking after their young

toddltodler daughter which is what he would do, the attorneys say, while she would work seven days a week, up to 70 hours away from the house. >> so, chris, she saw him after -- for days after the marathon bombings and says she had no idea that he was involved? >> reporter: that's right. the word we're getting is that she only realized that he was a suspect the same way thousands of other people did when they initially saw the news reports, watching cnn and other networks, broadcast those initial pictures and those initial video that the fbi put out that thursday evening. we're told that that is when she realized, and before that she had no idea of his potential involvement. >> if she was allegedly working

during the bombing, who was caring for their little daughter, do we know? >> reporter: we don't know if she was necessarily working during the bombing. but we do know basically that he had not been working full time recently in that she was working very long hours. they were living at the apartment. but that also family members were also there as well. we also heard that she did not see dzhokhar, the younger brother, as much as she saw other members of tamerlan's family, simply because dzhokhar would often be at umass dartmouth living in a dorm. she saw other members of the family more than she saw interaction with dzhokhar, who was only there off and on. >> okay. obviously investigators want to learn as much as they can from her and we'll be talking to her

more. appreciate that, chris. thanks very much. hearing from the man who was originally car jacked by the bombing suspect and managed to get away. for a long time we thought he had been released by the bombing suspect. now our affiliate wmur got an exclusive off-camera interview with him. he didn't want to appear on camera or his name used for his own safety. the alleged carjacking victim was forced into the front passenger seat as one brother drove. they asked me, a quote, where i'm from, i told them i'm chinese. i was very scared. i asked them if they were going to hurt me. they said they wouldn't hurt me. i was thinking they would kill me later. he told them he was running out of gas and drove to a gas station. when one brother went to pay for the gas the other went to the pump to pump the gas. he realized it was an opportunity to escape. he jumped out of the car, ran across the street, bombers ran off and he was able to run into a gas station. place were able to track down

the car because the car jacking victim left his cell phone behind and they were able to trace the vehicle to watertown. now the m.i.t. police officer, two bombing suspects accuse of gunning down never had a chance to respond. we're learning that new details about the death of officer sean collier, 26, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation says he never had time too activate his emergency alert and did not radio dispatch about the suspects. the source says it's not clear why the brother. bushes the officer. shot four to five times as he sat in his patrol vehicle. officer collier was laid to rest over the weekend. as i said he was just 26 years old. boston is slowly taking steps to return to some semblance of normal, eight days after two bombs tore through the finish line of that marathon. business owners and residents of boilstown street are returning to the area. escorted in over several hours today. site is closed to the public.

jason carroll, you've been talking to business owners. what are they telling you? >> reporter: well, it's a long road ahead for them and they're saying a lot of things about it. they're checking in at a convention center around the block from where i am now. behind me here, you can see, anderson, it looks empty on the street but it's not what happens happening outside. it's what's happening inside the businesses as business owners and residents are being allowed back into today on a walk-through basis. it's happening on a staggered schedule, starting at 10:00 a.m., one block per hour over a six-hour period. at this hour we've got streets of dartmouth and clariton opened, 1:00 p.m. berkeley and so on until 3:00 p.m. again we met up with business owners and residents collecting at convention center nearby. that's what they're checking in, to be escorted back to properties and businesses. some business owners talked about excitement of trying to get back into their business,

trying to get back on to their feet, back into a schedule while others talked about the reality that they just can't seem to shake of being so close to the bombing when it happened. >> a step in the right direction. we're not sure what's going on. we get to go in to clean up, you know, and do what we need to do to get ready. >> for us and our business it's really about how do we get back to boston, how do we band together, help those seriously injured that are going to have life-long struggles. >> i've had a tough time, you know? i had a son that works with me that goes to school and we walked outside two seconds before the bombing. i had envelopes in my hand for him to mail at the mailbox and he said, dad, can we go? i looks at crowd and said, i'll mail them out. i feel very lucky and just it's

very emotional. >> reporter: he said it best, still a lot of emotion out here for these residents. still a lot of emotion for the business owners as well. again, a long road ahead. things are starting to get back to normal one block at a time. anderson? >> yeah. jason, thanks. i want to talk to the co-owner of the charles mark hotel, it's in front or feet from where the first explosion happened. thanks for being with us. your hotel is obviously closed down. you're going to be able to get back to the hotel today? >> 2:00 we're escort back with essential employees. >> do you have a sense how soon you'll be able to reopen? >> no. we could be ready in 24 hours but we haven't got the go-ahead from the city yet. >> you were there that day. what did you see? >> i was on our patio, which is about 30, 40 feet from where the first bomb went off, and when the bomb exploded, everyone was in sort of a state of shock and

we looked at each other and then when the second bomb went off, people started to cry and yell and they started to run toward the inside of the hotel to get away. about 30 seconds after that, i went out to the patio, the sidewalk with two managers, and it was a horrible scene. people were lying all over the place, they were bleeding. fortunately that quickly there were two or three people attending to each person that was down. and so my two managers start to tear down the scaffolding, everybody seems to understand that people needed access to the people who were down. and i took a video because of training first aid but sauce everybody was attended to, didn't think i could help much more. 60 seconds after we were out there, some federal people started to yell at us, get out, get out, get out. there could be more bombs. and i turned and on my video you can hear me say, i don't think

it's safe to be here one of my employees said, yeah, you're right. we went back into the building and we escorted everybody out. didn't take long, about two minutes. >> to get everyone out of the hotel? >> yeah. >> how do you think the city's doing in terms of bouncing back? >> i think -- i broke this down to two different parts. one is what everybody needs to do to get their businesses back and running, it's like being at war and you're a general, we still need to make a lot of moves. i made a list, they asked me to bring it on, of ten things we need to do. and the other side, the emotional side, we were scared. we cried. we were angry. we felt a lot of pride. and so you have to balance those two things. so i think that everybody's feeling better but when we go home at night we're thankful that we're still here and we're understanding how precious life is. a couple of my guys have

families and they're more affected than people that don't because they have people counting on them if they had gone away, it's what if. >> what's it like for you get back inside today, too? >> emotionally, i'm fine. i feel like i said we're at war and i have 75 employees and we need to take care of them. we need to get -- the steps are we get cleaned up and get to our guests and we contact everybody and we talk to each employee individually because we're not experienced at this in saying how are you doing, how can we help you? do you need time off? do you want to be with us everybody has come together and stayed together at the hotel and they're bonding and hugging and they're telling each other that they love each other and how proud they are of each other. it's touching. >> it's going to be a difficult days ahead. mark, thank you very much for being with us. to help those affected by the boston bombings visit cnn.com. a lot of information about other group there's which are helping. you can donate, too, from the

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this is laura wellington, she didn't make to the finish line at boston marathon, the bomb hit before she actually got there. but she got a medal from a runner who did finish and stopped to make sure she was okay after the blast went off. wellington put the picture on her facebook page saying she can barely express what it means to her. that's one example. reverend liz walker joins me now, a former local news anchor in boston. it is amazing to me, we expect in an instant like this to see -- we see the horror and the hate but we also see incred. >> kindness and compassion. and it's not just here in boston. we see it in the wake of the earthquake in haiti, the wake of hurricane katrina. incidents bring out the best of us sometimes. >> they do. it's interesting why they do, why can't we be this way the all the time, i don't know. when evil rises up it seems like good goes for it. and i think that's what gives us hope otherwise we'd have no hope. but what happened here in

boston, as you said, anderson, happened across the country and across the world. people rise up to try to reach out and make a difference. and that's the lesson, i guess. >> you do want to hold on to it make it left as long as it can. i have spent a long time in very difficult areas and i see it time and time again, and there is. this amazing feeling. just the past week in the city there's an amazing feeling of defiance and pride and strength and people -- people looking each other in the eye and shaking each or's hand hard and hugging each other. you wish that would be like it is all the time. >> i don't know why. i haven't figured that one out. but the sense of mutuality, the sense that we're all connected and need each other. maybe it takes those bad things for us even recognize that, because the rest of the message is that we get most of our life is that you get what you can get and the heck with the rest of the world. but when it comes down to it, it's good to know we're not alone. >> when you're preaching, when you're speaking, people must ask

you all the time of why does god let bad things to happen to good people. >> that's an answer i don't have yet. i think that god is always confronting evil. i think that's history and god always does something against evele and that's the history of my tradition but i don't know what happens. i do know that evil will not have the last word. i believe that. >> you believe that? >> the good guy wins. martin luther king said, the universe arcs on the side of justice. ultimately justice will win. maybe i won't see it, maybe you, but it will happen. i think these are these little signs that we see when disaster strikes of justice rearing up. >> i certainly hope that spirit that we've seen in the city not only continues and permeates life here but extended to the rest of the country because it is -- it's a privilege to be here and witness it and to share in that spirit. >> you know what?

it's an intention. we have to make sure we do random acts of kindness. you are to try to do it, even if you're not facing disaster. >> thank you so much. really a pleasure to talk to you. i want to turn to another story that we're following, the civil war in syria. israel now says syrian government, they say they believe the syrian government is using chemical weapon against its own people. this could be a game changer. obama stated that was a red line they couldn't cross. a live report straight ahead. thank you orville and wilbur... ...amelia... neil and buzz:

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hey, everyone, i'm anderson cooper live in boston. special coverage from boston continues. first a number of developments we want to tell you about. first the alleged plot to attack a canadian passenger train head for the united states, canadian police have two men in custody. the suspect had support from al qaeda in iran. iran denies iran is operating inside its borders. the men appeared in court a couple hours ago, denied bail. police say they were monitoring the plot and there was never any danger. there are also new allegations today that syria's using chemical weapons against rebel forces. this time, the allegations coming from a top military intelligence official in israel. from beirut across the boarder

in lebanon, mohammed, what is the israeli official saying? >> reporter: well, anderson, at a conference today, brigadier general, the head of the israel defense forces intelligence research department, he said that the syrian government had used chemical weapons several times in the past few months against syrian rebels and he said, in all likelihood, they had used sarin gas. now, the general went on to say, that they believe that one of the dates that sarin possibly was used was march 19th. they said they had seen evidence from that date to suggest that victims of the chemical attack, in his words, suffered the effects of those deadly agents used against them. now, we should stress, though, that this comes just one day after a press conference that we've given yesterday by the israeli defense minister accompanied by u.s. secretary of defense, chuck hagel. that happened in israel yesterday. in that press conference, the israeli defense minister seemed less certain. they said that israel would not

allow rogue elements to get their hands on the chemical stockpile of the regime. he said that had not happened, it had not been tested but israel would not allow it to happen. >> obviously, if this is true, it increases pressure on the united states to increase or to intervene, in some way. president obama had said in the past, syria's use of chemical weapons would be a game changer, that was a red line they could not cross. what are you hearing from u.s. officials? >> reporter: absolutely, anderson. on so many occasions we've heard from u.s. officials saying that the syrian regime would suffer dire consequences if they were to use chemical weapons. now today we've heard from the pentagon, the pentagon press secretary george little said, the united states continues to assess reports of chemical weapons used in syrian. the use of such weapons would be unacceptable. we reiterate in the strongest possible terms of obligation of the syrian regime to safeguard

the chemical weapon stockpiles. senior officials have told cnn they've been concerned in the past month there have been a lot of movement of the syrian chemical stockpile. he says while they believe that it has not been used by the syrian regime, the fact that it's been moved so much raises serious concern about whether or not the u.s. will be able to continue to monitor syrian stockpiles of chemical weapons. >> all right. mohammed jamjoon, appreciate it. infrared video used to locate the suspect. coming up, my exclusive interview with the s.w.a.t. team that helped to take down dzhokhar tsarnaev in the final few minutes. >> we broke away from the shield protective cover and rushed him. we put hands on him, grabbed him, and pulled him off the boat. [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me.

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welcome back to a special edition of "cnn newsroom," live from boston. the s.w.a.t. team that took bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev out of the boat and into custody talked with me earlier about how it all went down. here's their story. >> when you first saw them, what did you think? >> this is -- this is the target, this is the job, you know? we're almost done with this. and let's do it, you know? let's just do what we're trained to do, you know, this is the suspect, we're trained to go in and apprehend him. you could see one hand was clear

of any weapons but each time he went back the other way his hand went down inside the boat out of our view. and i know everybody here, we've spoken about it each time he did that, we had to assume he was reaching for either a weapon, firearm, or some type of explosive ignition device to try to draw us in and then take us out in a suicide-type manner. he did that a couple of times, as we're still approaching towards him. we got close enough that at one point where both of his hands were up, because of the rocking back and forth, both of his hands were up, we could see there were no weapons, no ignition devices, broke away from the shield protective cover and rushed him. we put hands on him, grabbed him, pulled him off the boat down one to the ground. at that point it just became a -- i don't want to say typical, but an arrest situation. you check the suspect for weapons. of course, him, we had to collect him for explosives, take

his sweatshirt off he may have been wearing a suicide vest. we still didn't know if the boat had been rigged with explosives, a timed device or anything else because of their behavior all week long. so at that point we needed to get him away from the boat. as soon as he was checked for anything, handcuffed we picked him up and ran like h e ll to get way from the boat and get him to where the medics were and agents. >> there were reports he was shot in the throat but unclear whether that was self-inflected, whether it -- what point. could you tell that? >> i did see a throat injury. to me it looked like a knife wound. it wasn't a puncture hole. it was a slice where the -- where it was spread open. possibly a piece of shrapnel from one of the explosives that they were using the night before. it didn't look like a bullet wound to me. it looked more like a cut of some kind. >> the men on that s.w.a.t. team

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welcome back to a special edition of "cnn newsroom," live from boston. several major developments in our ongoing coverage of the terror attack to tell you. a private funeral service just held for m.i.t. police officer sean collier, found as you know, shot to death in the patrol car

on the campus of m.i.t. last thursday. he was killed by the brothers exactly why, it's unclear. the older tsarnaev brother later died in the shoot outwith police, he's said to be the mastermind of the bombing. cnn spoke to the mother of the suspects. take a listen. ply son was innocent! and i love them. and i want the whole world to hear about it. i loved them and i will love them as i want to go to -- i mean i want to join them. if there's an going to kill me today i will be happy. happy okay? i will say, allahu akbar. >> she says her son were framed. the one captured admitted to the bombings. dzhokhar tsarnaev admitted to investigator his and his brother were self-radicalized jihadists and no one else involved in the

attack. the investigate is very much in its early days. the teenage suspect still in the hospital on a ventilator. he's been communicating by nodding his head or shaking his head. he did speak when asked this question, you've got right to an attorney, this initial appearance, during any questioning at any lineup and all proceedings in court. he was asked you also have the right to have the court assign counsel if you cannot obtain counsel. you obtain a lawyer? the defendant indicated no. deborah feyerick. what apparently do we know that he told investigators about motive behind the bombing? >> reporter: right now, anderson, all indications are that tsarnaev has indicated, as suggested to investigators, that in fact, religion, radical islam, was one of the reasons, their belief in jihad was why they did this attack. again, anything that he says, certainly from his hospital bed, investigators are going to have to run to the ground and to make sure that this is true.

we don't know what the real motivation is. he's saying perhaps it's jihady, others perhaps are looking into something deeper as to why he may have done this. you know we have said that, in fact the brothers, the older brother was the mastermind, he self-radicalized and, by all accounts, people talking to, it does seem like he was the one who took it upon himself to become radicalized, that is, there is no suggestion right now that he was recruited. he did travel to russia we know in january of 2012 and a lot of investigators believe that during that time he may, may, have received training. that's what they're looking into right now. when you look at all that's happening everything was done operationally perfectly the way they walk, the way they planted the bombs, all of that. and so to suggest that perhaps that is something that they learned on the internet, investigators don't quite believe that, although tsarnaev, according to a source that spoke to jake tapper, tsarnaev told

them they learned how to make the device over the internet. so they're looking into that. they want to make sure that in fact that is the case. again, what we've seen in a lot of cases, anderson, as you well know, a number of people have tried to attack america, tried to attack the united states. but the one thing that always failed was the device that they were trying to use to hurt people. this one succeeded. and so the level of sophistication is sort of ratcheted up to a whole new level. they had everything right. and that's why investigators are not 100% sure that in fact these two were able to pull it off. the older brother, the 26-year-old, believed 0 to be the haftmastermind, motive poss jihady and everything else in play as investigators are spanning out across many parts of the world. anderson? >> i just want to stress, there's a lot we do not know about this investigation. and a lot of theories, frankly, at this point. i talked to tom fuentes in the

last hour who said there have been cases before of people learning how to make explosive devices, even more complex explosive devices than ones used allegedly by the tsarnaev brothers at the boston marathon and learning how to do that over the internet. you talk to different people, din explosive experts say different things. we have a lot to learn who is behind this, exactly how the whole operation came to be. deb feyerick, appreciate the update. coming up -- the latest on the flooding across the midwest. rivers in northern illinois surged to record levels, thousands evacuated. >> it's kind of emotional to see this situation. you know, it's bad deal. 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb

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welcome back to our special coverage of the boston bombings. we just got a tweet from the u.s. torn who says according to the hospital that dzhokhar tsarnaev is in they've listed his condition as fair. preferly the condition listed serious. that would be obviously an

upgrade. want to talk about the boston ma massac massacre t-shirts pulled for nike. designed for the siri between new york and red sox. they had the word boston massacre. nike's pulled them from the market. they were still on sale several days after the bombing, that's what the apology's been around. the shoiirts have been around f a while. people experiencing long delays at airports because of spending cuts. thousands of air traffic controller furloughed which means fewer take-offs and fewer landings. >> if there's some cost cutting and i don't feel it too badly, i'm all for it. if it becomes painful i think we need to figure out another way to deal with things. >> we're all going to pay the price. >> if your flight's delayed, we want to hear from you.

cnn ireport. let noise what's happening at the airport where you are. the town of west texas is getting ready for a visit from president obama and the first lady. they'll go to baylor, university, near by waco. 14 people died. several deceased first responders, volunteer fire department rushing in to save others. also volunteer ems workers. the plant, the blast has left the town, an area four, five blocks around the fertilizer plant in ruins. obviously trying to find a way to rebuild. it's a small town, a lot of good people there. a lot of people still suffering hard there. in the midwest, it's the water that's the problem. the steady downpours caused flooding in illinois, missouri, iowa, indiana, mississippi, michigan, thousands forced from their homes. >> where is your home? >> my home that is gray and white mobile home with the black shutters on it. >> reporter: you can't get to

your home by foot now? >> no. yesterday i cried all day. >> reporter: today? >> today, i'm not crying yet. but the more i see that water come up, the more i'll cry. >> people in parts of missouri have not fled, working with members of the national guard, they're helping with sandbagging. a lot of need there. boston returning to work today. parts of the city reopening eight days after the bombing. i'm here at my house on thanksgiving day, and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway.

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his family there to cheer on a friend. they were all injured. >> i couldn't -- i see people's mouths moving and stuff but i couldn't hear anything. >> how close were you to the first it. >> i think we were probably ten feet away. the noise was, i think, scarier than the plast itself because it was so loud. >> i wanted to share his story with you again. we called the hospital, ron is in good condition. he does need more surgery. but he's said to be doing well. we have been taking time out to remember the victims of the bombings. i'm joined by dr. sanjay gupta joining us on the phone right now. sanjay, just this information we've got in the tweet from the u.s. attorney's office saying the hospital, beth israel, upgraded the suspect's condition to fair. what does that tell you? what does that mean?

>> yeah, you know, when you go from serious condition, which means that the person's vital signs looking at the heart rate, blood pressure, things like that, are stable but still going up and down a bit, a little bit concerning, still requiring intensive care unit to fair, that basically means that things have now become stable and stayed stabilized, which is, you know, you and i were talking about this last night, it's exactly what you'd expect. sounds like the operation that was done was done on saturday. we're now three days after the operation. and it's pretty standard for a patient with that sort of condition to be improving steadily. so, it basically means i think doctors would say he's out of the woods. the biggest concern time is over. there's still concern about things like infection, obviously, and further operations he may need. but i think it's a very good sign overall.

>> still, what we don't know is how much authorities will be able to continue to talk to him today and tomorrow. a lot of that will depend not only on his willingness to talk but his medical condition. >> i want to point out regarding that, when you think of putting one of the airways in, in this case a an airway that goes into the trachea, it can be done because someone, for example, is so sleepy after an injury but they cannot breathe on their own, they cannot protect their own airway, and this situation, it was for a different reason. it was because of an injury to the neck. so it's more of a mechanical concern. could something compress the airway, so let's keep it open, for example, and using this tube. and the reason it's relevant, anderson, because basically saying, look, there's no concern about the head injury, there's no concern about something that's going to require

significant sedation. this is more of a mechanical issue. and that's why, i'm sure, he's been upgraded to fair as well. >> we'll have more of his condition tonight at 8:00 on "360" hope you join me for that. i'll be on at 8:00 and 10:00. that does it for me. special coverage continues. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. and make your business dream a reality. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs, cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years,

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